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Mass Media and Technology Hall (MMTH) will close at 4:30 p.m. today (Feb. 28) due to an inoperable fire alarm system. If you have a class in MMTH tonight, please check with your department or instructor. If you need to use the computing lab, other open computing labs on campus that are available to students […]

WKU will host Making a Difference: Kentucky Educational Leadership Doctoral Symposium on March 31 and April 1 to explore key issues facing education in Kentucky and opportunities for making a difference. The symposium will provide a forum for doctoral students in Educational Leadership from across the state to connect with key educational leaders, legislators and […]

Members of the WKU Forensic Team traveled to Bowling Green, Ohio; Evanston, Ill.; and Dekalb, Ill., to compete in four tournaments the weekend of Feb. 25-27. These four tournaments presented WKU team members with one of their last opportunities of the season to qualify events for the national tournaments taking place in April. In Ohio, […]

WKU senior Colleen Stewart was recently awarded a prestigious Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholarship. Stewart, a news-editorial journalism major from Crestview Hills, received the $2,000 award at the Foundation’s 2011 Annual Scholarship Luncheon at the Yale Club in New York City. Charles Sennott, executive editor of GlobalPost, was the keynote speaker. Stewart was among 14 […]

A WKU geoscientist will help lead a new project titled IGCP 598: Environmental Change and Sustainability in Karst Systems under the auspices of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) International Geoscience Program. Dr. Chris Groves, director of the WKU’s Hoffman Environmental Research Institute, will serve as a co-leader of the five-year project. […]

WKU’s Habitat for Humanity campus chapter will be sending three volunteer groups to Virginia, North Carolina and Mississippi during spring break March 7-11. The WKU groups will travel to Lynchburg, Va., Burlington, N.C., and Lucedale, Miss., to assist local Habitat chapters with various projects as part of Habitat’s Collegiate Challenge. Collegiate Challenge is an alternative […]

Students from five schools participated in the regional MATHCOUNTS competition Feb. 19 at WKU. Teams from Drakes Creek Middle School and Franklin-Simpson Middle School advanced to state competition March 25-26 at the Holiday Inn North in Lexington. Also moving onto the state event as the top two individuals not on advancing teams were Priyanka Sheth […]

WKU’s newly acquired 18,000-pound electron microscope from Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be on full display at the NOVA Center Conference March 10-11. Find out more in this week’s View from the Hill.